Between 700 and 4000 Fukushima Workers Dead?

[excerpted] I live in New York City. Since March 11, 2011, I’ve visited Japan four times.
My latest visit was in November. I spent two weeks in Tokyo, a day in Kyoto,
and another in Takasaki. Just as it was on my previous three visits, Tokyo’s
Narita Airport was very quiet on Nov. 4. Hardly any international tourists were
entering the country. It was like a no-man’s-land.

America, and Russia) are
keeping quiet about the reality of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster and the
diffusion of radiation across the Northern Hemisphere.

According to informed sources, between 700 and 4,000 workers from the Fukushima
plant have died from exposure. Children in Fukushima are dying from myocardial
infarction as a result of the cesium concentrated in their muscles. But doctors
in Fukushima are not allowed to tell patients if illnesses are related to
radiation exposure. The Fukushima Medical Society has forced doctors to sign a
secrecy agreement; if they refuse, their license to practice is revoked.

The extent of radiation exposure from Fukushima Daiichi has not yet been
disclosed, either in Japan or in Western countries, although radiation exposure
in the air and sea ­ and in food ­ is indisputably spreading....

About Me

I am a Professor at a large public university. I study political economy and biopolitics (the politics of life). My interests are diverse but are broadly concerned with economic, social and environmental justice. I have published 5 books: Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy and Ecological Sustainability: The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in the Twenty-First Century (2016); Fukusima and the Privatization of Risk (2013); Constructing Autism (2005); Governmentality, Biopower and Everyday Life (2008/2011); Governing Childhood (2010).
I also participated in an edited collection on Fukushima: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization (2014).